WORLD 2015: This past year was one marred by war and humanitarian crisis – a year that also saw a spike in terror attacks around the world – the first being the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Here is a panorama of world events in 2015. – January – – 7 to 9: FRANCE – Seventeen people are slaughtered in ...

KABUL – Russian President’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov has said that the US and NATO mission in Afghanistan has been a complete failure and the evaluation of the effectiveness of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) there has been negative. The US and NATO mission in Afghanistan has been a complete failure, the Russian President’s special envoy for ...

KABUL – The top US and NATO military commander in Afghanistan may seek additional American troops to help local forces as they struggle to contain the Taliban insurgency, USA Today reported. General John Campbell’s interview with the newspaper comes as the security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated in the second half of 2015, with an increase in insurgent attacks and ...

The marriage had brought a very prominent change in the attitude of the PTI chief. Reham motivated him to focus on Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, the only province that voted his party into office. Political system in Pakistan is passing through transitional stages, but with the passage of time the main political strata have determined their nuclei. Punjab has been made a ...

ENGLAND: A Muslim convert who used Facebook to say he would bomb an MP’s house after she voted in favour of British air strikes in Syria has been jailed for eight weeks. Craig Wallace, 23, who converted to Islam while serving a jail term for attempted robbery, wanted to target Tory MP Charlotte Leslie. Three weeks after he was released from ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Counter Criminal Narcotics Justice Task Force (CJTF) officials said on Wednesday that the increase in drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan during 2015 is a matter of serious concern for the Afghan government. According to the CJTF, at least 473 incidents related to drug trafficking and production have been registered by the organization and 598 suspects have been ...

AFGHANISTAN: As Afghan and NATO forces focus in confronting the militant groups of Taliban and Islamic State (IS) or Daesh, concern grows over the re-emergence of al-Qaeda. The New York Times reports that al-Qaeda training camps are sprouting up in Afghanistan, forcing the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies to assess whether they could again become a breeding ground for attacks ...

QUETTA: Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of Baloch chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti, claimed on Wednesday that former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf through his lawyer begged pardon over the ‘murder’ of the slain leader. Talking to DawnNews, Jamil Bugti maintained that during the hearing of Akbar Bugti’s murder case in an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) he out rightly rejected a request made ...

PARIS – A total of 110 journalists were killed around the world in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, noting that while many died in war zones the majority were killed in supposedly peaceful countries. Sixty-seven journalists were killed in the line of duty, the watchdog group said in its annual roundup, listing war-torn Iraq and Syria as ...

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